Please note: When I have sufficient time, I will write under each picture the names of the people therein.
Poem I wrote: Wonder How I’ll Go
Wonder how I'll go. What will be my final blow? What will finally bring me down When life has brought me up, thus far, And saved my life so many times before, Till now, and kept me 'round? Well, can't complain. I'm in God's hands, As inane as it sometimes sounds. I know a Higher…
Relatives, page 2
Please note: I have barely begun to post a few photos of family and relatives. There is much more to come down the line. And when I have time, I will better organize the layout of these pictures, plus add names of who the people are in the photos; so you know better what you're looking at.…
Photos of Relatives, Page 1
Note: When I have sufficient time, I will organize these pictures into relevant groups, writing names of who the people are.
Poem I wrote: My Life’s a Wreck!
Life's a Shipwreck! Or should I simply conclude: "That ship has sailed — Like two ships passing in the night,” Coming unglued? Or I could say, "Life's a train wreck.”? Or has that train left the station too, Like two trains passing a wreck or two? I've lived a long time – a…
Poem/Doggerel I wrote: Battles of the Bulge
I eat, at times, to simply nurture That gaping hole in my existence, I'm sure. But one feather in my cap is I regularly get up And a do a great morning workout routine. I may feel like I'm bent, spent, and useless, For some time thereafter, should I overdo. But somehow, I "work it all…
Poem I wrote: Ode to Chava Chavarin and the Tres Camarones Team
Tres Camarones/Three Shrimp Dr. Luis Alberto Urrea’s audiobook Into the Beautiful North inspired the following lyrics: Ode to Chava Chavarin*and the Tres Camarones Teamby Stephany Spencer-LeBaron Hey!What's in a name?I can't say;but the moniker“Chava Chavarin”rings in my brain today,though I completedthe novel yesterday.Like music in rain,This sonorous name motivated my muse to pen poems for play!So…
Poem I wrote: “Advice for Creatives”
"Part of the reason that people don’t become enlightened is because it’s punctuated by intermittent catastrophes."WordToTheWise Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.An axiom DARE, DEAR CREATIVES, DARE!by Stephany Spencer-LeBaron"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."Creatives can onlypresent works to the world... see their originations unfurled,if they dare---dare to fail, in order to dare to…
Poem/Doggerel I wrote: Lovely Lively Lizards
Lovely Lively Lizards I detest supporting lazy "lizards" -- Leeches, losers, and welfare abusers: Socialism can be Welfare for users. So, lazy-daisy loafing "lizards," Penniless-paupers, down-and-out dizzards, Get off your rump, use your gizzard, And from the welfare rolls be scissored! My new slogan is herein delivered: "Be part of the solution, Not the pollution…
Poem I wrote: “In Retrospect”
From Ma to Marie, they competed with me Like free-wheelers in Bedlam Town -- The devils had come ‘round to roost – It was All Souls Day in hell —Free reign was given the devil For a thousand years, as well — Plus a ticket to ride My poor hide in all gears!No holds were…
Original Sayings and Doggerel I wrote : From My Pen to Yours
~ Original Sayings 'n' Short Poems From My Pen to Yours I Think Mice Are Very NiceI think mice are very nice. Some people say they have lice ... Leave mouse tracks in their rice.But with pet mice that's quite rare; So I still do declare, I think mice are very nice! ~Stephany Spencer (My first poem,…
Essay and Doggerel Poem I wrote: “John Cage and Composing”
Avant-garde composer John Cage said: "The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing." We could likewise say:The material of poetryis sound and silence-- syllables and silence. Integrating these is composing, albeit poetry. We could compose music and poems that go together; I.e., compose songs: Songs are poems--lyrics set to music. Now I morph into…
Poem/Doggerel I wrote: “Hel’s Home Life”
Tulips 7-09/9-16 Helen's home life Makes mine and Marie’s life Look complacent in comparison. Her home’s a hotbed for tulips Or "two lips" – in hell! Oh, well! Poor “Hel.” But you never can tell, From the outside, If a home's a heaven or hell On the inside. It's probably just as…
Memoir: An Apology As To Name Changes, etc.
Dear readers, please note: I have changed names in my Memoirs, in various cases, to protect the innocent -- mainly myself! I also acknowledge that in writing my memoir blogs, I know I can't avoid hurting my family, relatives and past friends I grew up with. Anything I say at all against their…
Front-yard Water-Smart Project
This is a part of my front yard, taken around two years ago. I removed the lawn and planted California friendly, drought resistant Gazania and other water-Smart plants. Then I used red Canyon rock and other such to further create landscape design and color -- plus a matching mulch for around the plants. By now the…
iPhone Selfies
Talented Jennie Garn, a cyberspace friend, produced this beautiful take of herself on her smartphone! This is a Selfie of me. I was surprised to find I could take pictures of myself with my iPhone that are as good or better than any pictures I've had taken by photographers, in general.
STEPHANY SPENCER: 